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Thursday, 31 March 2016

Good Morning Everyone,
Our gorgeous grandaughter stayed over with us last night and is miraculously still sleeping so while I have a few minutes of peace before my little whirlwind wakes up I thought I would just quickly post a card I made for a friends recent birthday.
I left it way too late and didnt have time for a coloured image so came up with this simple card instead,

The papers are Trimcraft 'Folk Song' and I used Clearly Besotted stamps for the sentiment...I love, love, LOVE those dotty relation stamps. The butterflies are cut from matching dp from the same pad using a CB die and then I just dotted a few crystals around. In hindsight I think clear sequins would have looked better but hey ho....

Thats all for now, thanks for visiting and your lovely comments. I love reading them all.

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Hi Everyone,
Well spring is officially here, at least according to the single daffodil that has sprouted in our garden. Poor thing looks really lonely lol so I thought it would be the ideal time to show my last Easter card...

My card uses a Clearly Besotted stamp from the 'Just Darling' set, the polka dot paper was from Lawn Fawn 'Mon Amie' , Ribbon from stash and the sentiment was computer generated. I used distress markers to colour the image.

Monday, 28 March 2016

Hi Everyone,
Hope you have all been having a great Easter/bank holiday weekend, I'm sorry I have been a bit absent again (I have still been visiting/commenting as much as possible just not managed to make anything worth showing lately )

For the past week I have tried a few times to sit and have a crafting session but everything I tried I hated and it ended up in the bin lol...I think sometimes we are our own worst enemy and become too critical. So I have given myself a slap & told myself to chill out !
Anyway in a mad rush yesterday morning I finally managed to make a few Easter cards and here is the first two which you will see are very similar, both using Pink Petticoat digi's such a shame she closed her shop :(

The first one uses Trimcraft 'Folk Song' papers which were a Hobbycraft bargain - £2 a pad and a piece of gorgeous sage green card which I found while rooting through my snippets box. I love that colour and unfortunately that was the only piece, must try and find some more online I think I got it on Ebay. The PP image comes with the sentiment and I coloured it with a mix of promarkers and spectrum noir pens and added WoS to the tiny flower on her head.

The second one I have used LOTV/Nitwits paper that were a magazine freebie, again I added WoS to the flowers on her hat and the little bow which you cant see in the pic but looked really pretty.

Thats all for now but I will be back later with my final Easter card...better late than never haha

Sunday, 20 March 2016

Hi Everyone,
I am still busy with my friend's wedding stationary, the main invitations have been finished and sent out and the evening ones are almost done ready to be sent out at the end of the month. Moving on to cutting large hearts for the table signs now and tons of tiny ones for table confetti lol, then the table plan and place cards. Really enjoying doing it but finding it quite nerve wracking getting everything exactly as they want...not sure I would be in a hurry to do it all again ;)

I'm obviously not bored of wedding stuff as todays card is a wedding one !

I used Clearly Besotted stamps 'Mr & Mrs' and 'Happily Ever After' I love Stephanie's stamps (you might have already noticed) they stamp so beautifully every time. You can see in the top photo that I embossed the corner flourish and the wedding rings in fine gold powder onto cream hammered card which I then matted onto kraft card and then onto a white card base.

Another quick and simple card which is mainly what I seem to have the time for at the moment.
Before I go I thought I would show you a peek at the wedding invitations that I mentioned earlier.....

As you can see the theme is red, white and lots and lots of hearts ;)

Be back soon with another card, hope everyone is having a lovely weekend so far !

Friday, 18 March 2016

Hi Everyone,
I cant believe its over a week since I last blogged a card, where on earth does time go ?!! They do say as you get older so time goes quicker but I need about another 4 days in a week lol

Anyway my card today uses a Pink Petticoat image I have had for ages but never used, I decided to do a stepper card using a Craftwork Cards 8 x8 stepper blank.

I kept it quite simple with LOTV papers, a Clearly Besotted butterfly which has had the wink of stella treatment (of course !) but you cant really tell in the pic, some Sue Wilson flowers and some pompom trim from The Ribbon Girl.

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Hi Everyone,
I would like to start by welcoming my new followers Shaz and Di :) and to say a special thanks to Barb for the lovely comment on her fab blog that brought them to my little blog.....if I had got the hang of this linking thing I would link you but this techy idiot here has still to work that one out :(
Anyway it gives me such a buzz when I get a new lovely follower or comment, I love to read them it makes my day !

Onto my card, I have been practicing with my distress markers today (and also ordered some new colours ooops) and I'm reasonably happy with the result. The blending on the flower heads could have been a lot better but I think some of the problem might be the watercolour card I am using (I know ...A bad workman always blames his tools...lol but I do think I will try a different brand...any recommendations ?)
I used a Clearly Besotted rose stamp that was free in a magazine and did some masking to stamp it 3 times, the sentiment is from the same set. You can just see in the pic that I added a few drops of glossy accents to the petals for dew.

Well thats it for now, I'm off to visit some of your lovely blogs
See you soon,
Hugs,
Kaz x

Monday, 7 March 2016

Hi Everyone,
Hope everyone had a lovely weekend, it was my birthday on Friday and my daughter bought me a set of 12 distress markers :) I have wanted some for ages and couldn't wait to try them out so here are the 2 mothers day cards I made using them, I still need quite a lot of practising with them and made quite a few mistakes lol but I was quite pleased with the finished results.
Only thing is I can see that I am going to 'have' to buy some more colours shhh dont tell hubby !

The first card I made for my gorgeous daughter for her little girl to give her, she was so excited bless her, at 2 yrs old this was the first year she understood anything about it, although I must admit she was more interested in getting Mummy to open the chocolates rather than the card.....

I used one of my favourite stamps for my daughters card, it was a magazine freebie a couple of years ago and I think it was probably one of the first stamps I ever coloured up. The dp is actually the backing card from a free paper stack again from a magazine, its been in my oddment box for ages so it was great to finally use it. I created the sentiment on my pc and used a woodware punch for the flowers.

My second card was the one I made for my MIL, again it was a freebie stamp - Crafters Companion 'Moonbeam Meadow' , the flowers are from The Ribbon Girl.

I am quite pleased with the photos this time, I made myself a makeshift light tent out of some white card and its made a huge difference. Now all I need to do is sort out my watermark...I have looked online but I am so useless at anything computer/technology that so far I haven't been able to figure it out...it doesn't take much to confuse me lol

Saturday, 5 March 2016

Hi Everyone,
Today I'm sharing the other 4 cards I made to complete the little gift set for my MIL for Mother's Day.

As you can see they are all essentially the same card but the different colour distress inks and matting card make them different, you can just about see in the photos that I added my faithful WOS to the flower petals for a bit of interest.
Mum in Law loves to receive my what I call 'Frou Frou' cards lol with all the flowers, ribbon and bling but I know that she the same as most people nowadays worries about postage costs.

I seem to be doing more and more CAS cards at the moment, I love making my cards with coloured images and papers etc but unfortunately at the moment with having my grandaughter while my daughter works full time means I'm just not getting time to sit and colour and at least this way I can still have a bit of crafty time even if it is in short bursts. By the time my scrummy Freya goes home in the evening all I want to do is collapse on the sofa lol....having said that its now the weekend so I have 2 days in my craft room woohoo !

Hope you all have a lovely weekend whatever you have planned,
Hugs,
Kaz xx

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Its been a very busy few days as my daughter and grandaughter have been moving into their own place, we will of course miss them loads but won't miss the mess and chaos that 3 adults and an extremely lively toddler crammed into a tiny 2 bed bungalow causes lol ...they have only moved to the next street in our village anyway so we will still see them lots as I look after my gorgeous grandaughter while her mum goes to work.

Anyway enough waffle, I did manage to make a couple of cards to show you.

My first card is a simple and quick Christmas card which is good for batch making if you usually make a lot (I did do just that in an attempt to not be way behind come december like I was last year) The snowflake dp is from Pink Petticoat (now sadly closed) as is the sentiment which I just printed on top. I made a bundle of these each with different colour snowflake backgrounds, different sentiments and matted on different colours so no two are the same. I added Clearly Besotted snowflake die...absolutely love that trio of dies which i coated with Wink of Stella and then dotted pearls on some of the snowflakes.

My next card is a sweet little baby card inspired by sketch 4 in Jules 'Always with a Heart' wonderful sketch library but with a few bits added...the dp is Echo Park 'Bundle of Joy'. I die cut 2 CBS scalloped tags, one in pink and one in white card, stamped the CBS onesie from the 'Little Onesie' set onto more of the dp and cut it out. They also do the matching dies but I just cut it by hand its such a simple shape and added this to the white tag, added a little flower then strung the 2 tags together and clipped on a sweet little peg I got from Hobbycraft.
The sentiment is also from CBS and I added some Sue Wilson flowers and pearls from my stash.

Before I go I would just like to say a special hello to my new followers, I really appreciate everyone's visits and lovely comments.

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About Me

Hi, I'm Karen,

I live in a small village in Kent and have been married for 25 years, my hubby is very supportive of my hobby/addiction to crafting mainly because it means he can spend hours in his man-cave without me moaning ;)

We have one beautiful daughter who is almost 21 and a gorgeous granddaughter who is at the terrible two's stage but still utterly adorable !

I have been card making since 2013 and am totally addicted, I am lucky enough to have a craft room and spend my time in there whenever possible.

I have already met some lovely friends through card-making/crafting and look forward to meeting lots more hopefully.